Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy.

The more you know the less the better.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

It had to go in, but it didn't.

Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.

One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.