Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

Good writing is lean and confident.