I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.