What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered...

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Now it seemed unbelievable, the innocence of a girl in a fairy tale.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.