Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Love is not everything

This is what I want so don't be sad.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

I am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.