I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Union gives strength to the humble.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.