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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I have the most amazing support network around me.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.