To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

I've always known I was adopted.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

Everything seems impossible until you see success.