Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening process.

After a kiss like that, he should know I’m the one. He should be down on his knees begging me to marry him and have his little Hottie babies.

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

That the wall is coming down.

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.