Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

You don't race cars, you race the rule book

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.