In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

The danger of a dream is the courage to conquer.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

I'm a lover not a fighter.

Our goal is self-transcendence

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.