Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Time is the wisest counselor of all, but Cosmic Ordering is the biggest provider.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

I don't support violence, period.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

If you ask that question again ma'am, I will have to ask you your age

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.