I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

Miracle centered gospel has reduced Christian significance and essence.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.