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Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.