The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.