I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

No really great man ever thought himself so.