The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listenin

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.