In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

As a mayor, I don't make my decisions based upon whether it is a "Democrat" issue. You make your decisions based upon the people you represent as a city to move our city forward.

That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.

I'm personally asking each and every single Boston resident to look after their neighbor.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.