The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

The wind that blows the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

It's getting harder just to feel alive.