The very last thing I needed was fire burning through my palms.

Without grace, we can do no good deed.

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.