The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Common will please, but never impress.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn’t fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

We're waiting for something to change into something worth waiting for

I want a dress the color of suffering