He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.