Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.