I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

The sun in on the harbor, love, And I wish I could remain, For I know it will be some long, long time, Before I see you again.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.