A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

Love will always be the most powerful force.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.

He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!