There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.