It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.