[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.