One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

What you become is what counts.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show youre a woman and loose enough to show youre a lady.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self-deception, & error.

Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights

Stay hungry stay young stay foolish stay curious and above all stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much dont.

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Birth is a shipwreck the mewling infant shored on unknown land.