Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Learn how to control your emotions and don't let them control you.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much, let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

For your every tear, know that I'll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I'll never disappear.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?