By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

History repeats, again.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.