I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

RG III a victim of his own swagger.

Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.