The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

At the end of the day, you can't regret it if you were trying. At the end of the day I'm walking with a heart of a lion.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.