The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

I like to make them squirm.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.