However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.
Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.
An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
The gold of the new world has ruined the old one.
As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.
Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
There is nothing new under the sun -- and that's why there remains such a mess.
Each year is a new year.
Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring,...
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man think...
Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understan...
He who uses bad incense must be careful not to burn his sleeves.
Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.
Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
There has to be news at a place called Fox News.
