Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.