It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Each soul has special gift. Find your gift for the specific service.

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.