I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

Mariel Hemingway

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl Buck

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Stephen King

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Milovan Djilas

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde