Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

To ask too much is the way to be denied all.

These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

Modeling is a lonely business.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.