If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.