Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Our point is we don't want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.