“What Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is ‘How do I leave my children better off than myself?

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.