It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Your neighbour is your nearest family.

Nothing can bring joy in your life except yourself.

My job is to know what other people do not know.

The decision can’t alone be mine, While the chalice is still full of wine

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

We are all children searching for love.

My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?