Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

I cannot squeeze the stars

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.