I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Never say more than is necessary.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

No one answer is ever the answer.

Casting all your care upon Him for He careth for you.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.