Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

Life's short. Live passionately.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

You should only expect something from your efforts.

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress May the name of the God of Jacob protect you May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.