With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies