It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
The arctic loneliness of age.
I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.
The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.