I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

And then he was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.

You wanted to be the cheese, ” I said.“The what?" "The cheese, the gooey good stuff that fills in the empty space when a slice is taken away.

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way for us to operate was to try to fly under the radar of everyone.

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.