My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

One of the greatest keys to happiness is realizing it has no doors.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

If you really know... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

A stone is frozen music

The greatest of the great make others better.