There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.