She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.