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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.
There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.
Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.
There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.
I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.
Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.
My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.
People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.