I’m a shallow, shallow boy. Hey, it helps that you’re pretty. It brings out the nice guy in me. Makes me what to share my cookies with you.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.