Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.