"The comfort and sweetness of peace."

“A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.”

“We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.”

“I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.”

“A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.”

“I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.”

“I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take what I'd learned in character drama and try to apply that to the genre that I love, which is science fiction and "The Twilight Zone" type mysteries.”

“There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.”

“What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.”

Source : "After Leaving Senate, Snowe Is Still 'Fighting For Common Ground'". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 13, 2013.