"Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me."

"I'll not listen to reason.… Reason always means what someone else has got to say."

"To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!"

"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."

"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."

"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands."