Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

The only question is how to make love stay.

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.