The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Sunlight is painting.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.