Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

A wise man’s question contains half the answer.

A tiny fly can choke a big man.

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.

I ultimately do still feel like an outsider, and I do feel, actually, I'm more in the world of music because of how much I participate with musicians - in all aspects, not just clothes.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the cornfield.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.