"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind."

"The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing."

"He who stands in the true middle is seen as an extremist by the real extremists."

"I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends."

"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

"What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have 鈥?and you don鈥檛 have to be a 鈥楽uperman鈥?to do it."

"How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!"

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now."

"'We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing."

"Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass."