I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

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.

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

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.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.

The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.