Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

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.

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

I'm almost 46. You become no longer even regarded in a sexual way. As you get older you're just taken out of that realm. So it's not anything that particularly confronts me very much at all.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.