Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

Keira Knightley

Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Jamie Foxx

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Kenny Loggins

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Matt Stone

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Peter Jennings

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bobby Fischer

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Samuel Dash

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Edgar Winter