Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.

Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.

Konig couldn't help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes.

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.

No one thanks you for showing them the light.

For all Wichtig spoke of trust, he trusted no one. For all he spoke of wisdom, he learned nothing. Every word he uttered was done so with an eye toward manipulation.

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

Fate didn't stand in the way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.

The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.

The mirror ever lies.

No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.

Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.

To love yourself, love others.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.