Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Common sense is not so common.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
