Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it.

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.