Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.

Be not a slave of words.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.