A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.