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

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.

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.

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.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"

People think that I'm very serious.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.