"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."

"The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him."

"Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance and those who delight in knowledge enter into still greater darkness, as it were."

"Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside."

"We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all."

"All power corrupts, but we need the electricity."

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

"There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind."

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

"It's better to be quotable than to be honest."

"Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."

"The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel."