Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

I'll see it when I believe it

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.