REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

I am harmony.I was harmony.I have always been harmony.I was born by harmony and I will go by complete harmony.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

Your body is your subconscious mind and you can’t heal it by talk alone.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

Man must suffer to be wise.

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.