Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.