The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

He's won't push me back on the night and he certainly wasn't going to push me back up there.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.