... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)