Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.