As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

Independence is to have full control of your life to be able to make your own choices and design your destiny.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

I believe that products should use technology to empower people of all abilities, to augment our minds and bodies, to make us better human beings.