Conquer, but don't triumph.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Todays Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.

The secret to fencing consists in two things to give and to not receive.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.

Variety is the spice of love.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

War is the symptom, not the disease.

I wish I could go back in time and enjoy once more what we took for granted.

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go - 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn't happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.