Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

You can predict your future life, only predict not assure.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.