After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.