The best live among us in disguise.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Let the greatness in you shine by occupying your daily life with decisions and actions that are in favor of your God's given destiny.

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.