Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

His modesty amounts to deformity.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.