"I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan."

“If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”

“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.”

“I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.”

“Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.”

“I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.”

“When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.”

“The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.”

Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics and Pastoral Theology”

“Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different”