"Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better."

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."

"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."

"Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with what happens to us."

"Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

"If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."

"Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good."

"Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax."

"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."