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

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

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.

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.

After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.

The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Everything comes to pass nothing comes to stay.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.

Spouse someone wholl stand by you through all the trouble you wouldnt have had if youd stayed single.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

Youre guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality thats the way that it is in this world.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.