You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?