"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"“ There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”  “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice.  “That would be all the better, wouldn't it?”"

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."