They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

What is to give light must endure burning.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

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