The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

A person preaches well that lives well.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Common sense is not so common.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!