Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?

We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.