"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..."

"People who know the least always argue the most."

"The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards."

"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."

"Trouble always seems to find a way to live inside my mind."

"We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive."

"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal."

"SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam."

"Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps."