Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.