It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.