The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.