The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.