"I wanted you to experience misery and the death of your innocent conscience because I felt that if you truly did, I would not be a useless life to you." None of us want to be useless."

"Our humanity never leaves us because we are different, even if we are different in a bad way."

"... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name."

"You are on the anti-cline of the first rush. You are also experiencing the inevitable disappointment of clubs. You enter with an anticipation that on the basis of past experience is completely unjustified. You always seem to forget that you don't really like to dance. Since you are already here, though, you owe it to yourself to make a sustained assault on the citadel of the senses."

"You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy."

"You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them."

"The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows."

"The present assault on capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich—a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness."

"When judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed."

"The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life."

"My mission is clear: to ensure that Singapore thrives and grows after Mr. Lee Kuan Yew; to find a new group of men and women to help me carry on where he and his colleagues left off; and to build a nation of character and grace where people can live lives of dignity and fulfillment, and care for one another."