A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

If you want to get along, go along.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I like power and I like to use it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Any jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build it.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

The first rule of achieving goodness is this: think only about self-perfection.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting-it's us.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better especially richer or more fashionable than he is.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Sunset is the opening music of the night.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may.

Any time the president talks, you listen.

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.