A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.

Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill That quivers through thy piercing notes So petulant and shrill. I think there is a knot of you Beneath the hollow tree, A knot of spinster Katydids,-- Do Katydids drink tea?

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

a Christmas tree .. the perfect gift for a guy... the plant is already dead .

The best way to fill time is to waste it.