The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me.

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

We have to sell the dream before we can sell the clothes

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.