I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.

When a man points a finger at someone else he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Somebody's upset with every movie.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson worked out his own Southern Strategy. Even as he was moving the nation to war, Wilson re-segregated Washington and purged African-Americans from federal jobs.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

If you believe in yourself, you can reach everything you want.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!