Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!