There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

It's an either/or world now.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

The mathematics of high achievement