It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Be bold, be a success, and change the world.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

In the business world cooperation is essential.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.