"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work."

-- Plato

“I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.”
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get,”

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”
“Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.”
“I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.”
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing”
“My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.”

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