Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.