The Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is which does not let you sleep.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.

You can`t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.

I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And by the way, in the the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex; regard us then as Beings placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.