It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

The lack of gratitude is the mother of misery.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

Earth recedes....Heav en opens before me.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.