"Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture."

"If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven."

"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. We've all worked with that person. That person is a drag."

"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony."

"Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God."

"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."

"Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to."

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier."