And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.