Richard Cecil

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.