If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, ' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan.

I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence!

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.