Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.