It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?

Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams.

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*