As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiting the resignation of their repressive governor.

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.