OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

People want to give back. People want to do good

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.