Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Don't breathe to survive

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.