No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

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.

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

I have learnt that you're out of your mind now!- Consider it as my fault... No! I don't blame you! - So Is it easy for you to forgive me? Try to walk in my shoes someday ...

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.