They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn't the fan's duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.