Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.

Purpose is the ultimate reason for your existence.

if u dont sow right u will not reap right.God attaches resources to a purpose

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

The sky cannot have two suns.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.