Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

Take the good the gods provide thee.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.