You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Još uvijek silno vjerujem u umjetnost kao medikament!

Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.