...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.

You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.