Greed is a suit that’s tailor made: it finds a way to fit every lifestyle, no matter how much or how little you earn.

Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

As you will it, so shall it be.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.