"Things are so bad in Massachusetts now they don't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows."

"I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends."

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."

"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it."

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

"War is cruel and you cannot refine it."

"We don't work for each other, We work with each other."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you鈥檙e a failure."

"My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line."

"Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."