Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.

Rory did not want her. After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.