Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

He who knows most believes the least.

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

I like to be provocative.

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.