Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

Damn it, I should be the only one allowed to drool over him. I found him first! Or something not as stupid.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

I like a quiet life, you know me.

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

Nothing lasts forever