Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

There are some loony people in this world!

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

I think the word rich is all relative.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Hunger is the best pickle.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Action is character.

When you say ‚control freak‘ and ‚OCD‘ and ‚organized,‘ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

There is no gambling like politics.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.