What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

The best live among us in disguise.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

What are you NOT working on that you should?

Worry, fear, doom, and gloom are all an absolute waste of energy ' ~ Ramie

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.