How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Love as if you are born to love

I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.

You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.

Let's chew on the chewables!

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.