Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

You were born not to be just fine

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.