Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

But whatever the reason, it felt surreal

Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.