Beverly Sills

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Enough or not…it will have to do.