There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

When someone tells you they’re too busy, it’s not that they mismanage their time, it’s that you’re not a priority.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna.

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?