A infância não é mais do que um longo percurso de inocente escuta às portas para se ouvir o que se devia ignorar.

A educação é uma coisa admirável, mas é bom recordar que nada do que vale a pena saber pode ser ensinado.

A insatisfação é o primeiro passo para o progresso de um homem ou de uma nação.

A arte começa onde a imitação acaba.

A diferença entre a literatura e o jornalismo é que o jornalismo é ilegível e a literatura não é lida.

A arte é a forma mais intensa de individualismo que o mundo já conheceu.

A essência do pensamento, tal como a essência da vida, é o crescimento.

A caridade cria uma multidão de pecados.

A experiência é o nome que damos aos nossos erros.

A mais alta e mais baixa forma de crítica é de género autobiográfico.

Aquilo a que chamamos de falta de sinceridade é muito simplesmente o método pelo qual multiplicamos as nossas personalidades.

A sociedade frequentemente perdoa o criminoso, ela nunca perdoa o sonhador.

A moralidade é apenas a atitude que adoptamos para com as pessoas de que pessoalmente não gostamos.

As religiões morrem quando se prova que são verdadeiras. A ciência é uma sequência de religiões mortas.

A obra de arte deve dominar o espectador. O espectador não deve dominar a obra de arte.

As pessoas hoje conhecem o preço de tudo e o valor de nada.

Aqueles que não fazem nada estão sempre dispostos a criticar os que fazem algo.

As nossas caras são verdadeiras máscaras que nos foram dadas para ocultarem os pensamentos.

A moda é o que a gente traz, o que está fora de moda é o que trazem os outros.

A morte é a única coisa que me terrifica. Detesto-a. Hoje em dia pode-se sobreviver a tudo excepto isso.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives.

No this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed to be at the time I was supposed to be.

The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy to forget the most extraordinary fact about it: that it was led by a black man, in a world of whites, at the end of the eighteenth century.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article in 'New York Magazine' about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn't help but be compelled.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.