The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.

Never change who you are so that other people will like you. Just be yourself and the right people will love you just for being you.

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

War is an admission of failure.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.