Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted.

I've Learned To Accept that one is never as great or terrible as they are made to feel, and the truth lies somewhere in between.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.