Music and dance are all you need.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.