When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well.” - Princess Karena

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

One who knows more, loves more.