There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Reading is my breath.

Love elevates the beauty of life.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.

If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.

Immerse your soul in love.