Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.