An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Many are called but few get up.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?I think we've got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information.

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!