Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

And the brave make their own fortune!

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it.