All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.