In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Free men set themselves free.

In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.