Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play.

(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

My approach to jewelry has always been to keep it very simple, but if you want to wear something, make sure it is exquisite and lovely and will stand out.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.