So when I feel most lost I choose to remember those things that help me survive. I choose love.

This was something they could not take from us - the freedom to imagine, to create new worlds beyond this one.

Don’t be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?

They were never defeated they were only killed.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.