"Small to greater matters must give way."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."

"As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark... so may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."

"Women should be obscene and not heard."

"A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."

"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."