Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

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.

Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.

You are better than any hollywood star. Just love yourself...!!!

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Dying would have been so much easier.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.