It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

A liar should have a good memory.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

When defeat is inevitable it is wisest to yield.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation and these an artist must champion.

The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

'Blackish' is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Television's not going read stories to you.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

Mel's Diner in L.A. - they are my favorite hamburgers. I could eat there every day. They are ridiculous.

I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don't make any substantial change.

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.