Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that.

To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?