Your library is your portrait.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Your library is your portrait.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Man is a dogs idea of what God should be.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

I think it is nice to get older.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.

There's an art to comedy.

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.

Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.