It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.