The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

To become a better you, don’t dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.