When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Jerry Brown

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

John Dryden

Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou fret? Then only might'st thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Aleister Crowley

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

Rahm Emanuel

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Consent to nothing I can say to you, on bad evidence, and if you are to accept anything I proclaim to be true, let it be to fear and hate the individual who would influence you to stop thinking, and in so doing, repudiate your God given right to know the truth.

Peyton Dracco

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Brigitte Boisselier

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde