I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Life is not for the faint hearted

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.