"My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age."

“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”

“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”

“You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.”

“Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.”

“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”

Source : Leonora Carrington, Mexican Museum (1991). “Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985”, Mexican Museum/San Francisco

“The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.”

“I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.”

“Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 200, 1895.