Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.