I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence.

Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.