You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

What you want to see, allow it and let it be.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.