A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.<br> From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.<br> From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.<br> From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.