I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I would rather be right than President.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

I had rather be right than be President.

There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

You have to get lost before you find yourself.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Here's the essence of risk management: Risk no more than you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful. If there is no such amount, don't play.

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.