Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

[Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

Photography is the art of making memories tangible.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.