Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.