It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds.How? Nobody knows.Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.