A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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

Common sense is not so common.

Sunlight is painting.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.