To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

Thank God, I also am an American!

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness