Time cures one of everything-even of living.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to serve and others who decide to pursue different careers.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.