Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

I don't want to get high with my kids, because then everything is different forever. That's so stupid, I think.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.