Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.

Love is basic of success.

Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you’re looking for and why you’re the best person for that position.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.