'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry.

Integrity of life is fames best friend which nobly beyond death shall crown in the end.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Whether we fall by ambition blood or lust like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows daws and starlings that flock together.

Man may his fate foresee but not prevent ... Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

There is no such thing as chance in a text. Any text is the result of a repertoire, on conscious and unconscious levels, and can only be decoded by someone privy to the same repertoire.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

I've learnt to appreciate my body, because it's taken me all the way here and will take me to the end.

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

We can't have investors buying four apartments while young couples struggle to raise another 5,000 shekels for a home. I appeal to investors: Think about these young couples, and invest your money elsewhere.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.