Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.