Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.