I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.