The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.

Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.

If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.