"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe."

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

"Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America."

"The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that."

"I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us."

"I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now."

"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."

"And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills."

"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."

"I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed."

"You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable."

"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."

"Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year."

"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged"

"The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively."

"Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are."

"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest."

"At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."

"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

"I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York."

"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think"

"Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?"

"For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together"

"I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it."

"Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the"

"Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy."

"Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor."

"Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that"

"I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen."