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I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

The house of magic has many rooms.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

For a man's house is his castle.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.