Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.
Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. . . . All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me. . . At first I was deeply shaken. . . I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house. . . and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.
Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.
Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.
The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.
But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.
We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.
