Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Possession they say is eleven points of the law.

Humor is very healing.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing.