When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.