'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Great actions speak great minds.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.