"An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything."

“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.”

Source : William T. Wiley, Graham William John Beal, John Perrault (1979). “Wiley Territory”

“Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.”

“One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

Source : A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.”

“I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a”

Source : Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”

“What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.”

Source : "Charlie Rose" with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. November 25, 2008.