Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.