The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.