It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.