History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.

Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.