‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.

‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.

‎Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.

Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

‎With adulthood comes responsibility.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.