“is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;”

“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”

"I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets."

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

I'm far from being a homosexual.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.