a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue

I'm not on drugs, I'm just weird.

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.