Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.