A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

Find what speaks to your energy and live it.

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence.

I love Coos Bay, and I love Acid!

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.