The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

I am not afraid I was born to do this.

It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality

The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. War is, among other things, impatience.

Remember people by their souls (through their eyes), not by their names.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Last words are only words.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.