The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

I don't know anything about baseball.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.