Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I rely on one thing in this world:my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with thestrongest hand possible.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.