I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

If you know the power of your thoughts, you would never fear failure.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.