Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.