He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.

For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

I told jokes badly.

I will always eat pizza! Always.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.