Party politics is now a real farce.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.