A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.