Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.

How much would you give to make your dream a living reality? Use the time you have.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

It's a date, not a duty

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.