To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Greil Marcus

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

Ewan McGregor

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Benjamin Franklin

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

Marcus Aurelius

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Ernest Hemingway

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Ronald Reagan

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Darrell Royal