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

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.

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.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

The elderly are useless eaters.

Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.