I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

And Hillary's [Clinton] not a change person. She's gonna be a person to keep it just the way it is. It's gonna be four more years of [Barack] Obama.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.