Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

For everyday, Rebecca Minkoff's collection is chic and comfortable at the same time.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.