The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange...CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.