They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

Captures the reader with true magic.

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed

It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

People give up the earth for beauty.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.