That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.