I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Common sense is not so common.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.