"We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place."

"If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff."

"I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two."

"You're "saying "'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it."

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

"They can because they think they can."

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"I don't compromise my principles for politics."

"I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has."

"Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'"

"If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States."

"If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward."

"Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end."

"I'm so tired of talking about Warren Buffett."

"The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered."

"But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required."

"Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back."

"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."

"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends of the right sort."

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

"It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer."

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose."

"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."