I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They don't live by trade but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know that the only solid though a far slower reformation is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A leader is one who out of madness or goodness volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.