Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

Having no regrets makes way for the best piece of advice I can give - don't be afraid of failure.

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.