Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?

The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

California is like the hot blond high school chick who's been getting by on her looks, but now she's 45 and falling apart.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.