Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

It is typically Norwegian to be good

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.