What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Living a lifetime is experiment.

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my hair every day. It's not something that I associate with myself.