His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Use love, use love as a bridge.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.