His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.