It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.