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.

The best live among us in disguise.

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.

Women will bring peace into this world.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

I like my life alone.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.