U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

They said, ‘Well, it can be done, but we’ll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).’ So here we are.

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live tv.

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it – Hammertime – I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don’t make cartoons like that anymore.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

We know everything about our clients – if they like their dressing gowns heated, what colour flowers they like, if their chef works left-handed – we know everything and we incorporate it into our work for them.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

I’ve always depended upon my own melodic instinct, instead of scale like formulas.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.