Disaffection stalks around us.

Disaffection stalks around us.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

Every man is grave alone.

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Gluttony is the act of digging a grave with your own teeth.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.

Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

I'm a big yogi.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.

I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build profits at the store level, and we build more stores. The first two things go in tandem, of course. It's pretty tough to build profits without sales.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.