Every invalid is a prisoner.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Morals are a matter of private agreement decency is of public concern.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music which is architecture too though invisible.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.

A happy new year Grant that I may bring no tear to any eye when this new year in time shall end Let it be said Ive played the friend Have lived and loved and labored here And made of it a happy year.

The sun--that power plant in the sky--bathes Earth in ample energy to fulfill all the world's power needs many times over. It doesn't give off carbon dioxide emissions. It won't run out. And it's free.

Abu Mazen understands that it is impossible to vanquish Israel by means of terrorism.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.

I don't want to be someone else.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

A secret is a secret in my mind.

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.