The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I have a temperament where I know how to win. Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.