Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.

You can regain your inner peace with a daily prayer.

Pony Lords, jump for your lives—AAH!

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.