Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.