The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about Æthelflaed. This was family. This was revenge.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities.

Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything.

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.