Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.