There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.

It is only impossible because one hasn't put one's whole mind and heart in it.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

When things are in the hands of the state they are in a hell of a state!

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.