No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.