A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation

Sometimes it's our darkest moments that make us shine.

I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.