"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

A mind is as strong as its weakest think.

A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

Find first, seek later.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.