To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

After I finish PO5, I would like to get a dog. I want to be able to spend more time with my pet, and I don't have the time right now.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.