Poets have a license to lie.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.