We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The law is above the law, you know.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird’s wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I’m pretty sure that’s it!

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.