If you work hard and play by the rules this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules they will fail.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Apart from a few simple principles the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.