The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

Satan labels you. God names you.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.

Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.