His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Never call a girl fat, even if you're joking.

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

Talent is truth on display.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.