With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

Old friends are best.

I stay out of the sun, which is very good. If you want to be in sun, please use SPF, it's important.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.