If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

At times I make music, but in private.

Home is where we have a history.

Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.