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.

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.

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.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

We're going to the Underworld, " Izzy said. She bounced a little as she said it, her eyes bright and her tone implying that "the Underworld" was akin to "Candy Land.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.