Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Positive thoughts, Positive attitude, Positive action.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

Faith in friendship is the noblest part.