The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise?

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I'm not a debater. I get things done.

I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.