All we ask is to be let alone.

Dear Alec

Cassandra Clare

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

G. Stanley Hall

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

Justice is achieved not in striving for justice, but with love.

Leo Tolstoy

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

Adrienne Rich

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Celine Dion

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Michael Bloomberg

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

Richard M. Daley

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks