A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

"Just think, children," said the missionary, "in Africa there are six million square miles where little boys and girls have no Sunday School. Now, what should we all strive to save money for?""To go to Africa!".

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

Captive primates in pharmaceutical labs can signal their peers of the approach of a predator white coated lab technician spoken on Diane Rehm Show week of Jan 1, 2004.