It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

No the first day, man crea tee God

Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

As long as i live i will have control over my being

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.