New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

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.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Be open to ideas and thoughts you disagree with. It will unleash a debate in your mind and soul.

Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.Even though the faces change, porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability