A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people

Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.