I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Francis Bacon

Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

William Shakespeare

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Harvey Weinstein

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

John Nelson Darby

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Jimmy Carter

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Michel de Montaigne