Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.