"Pride works _from within_; it is the..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

“Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.”

“There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.”

“Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.”

“I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.”

“I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!”

“The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.”

“If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.”

“I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.”