My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her.

It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.

I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill.

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

You could have told me earlier.” “You seemed so serious about the game. I didn’t want to bother you.