Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

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.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Sunlight is painting.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.