Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

God never abandons His children.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

Experts in fields can be hired & fired. But experts in people, who can understand & respect them and lead them becomes their Leader. And people don't fire them, they follow leaders.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

I don't read anything about myself.

I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I’m a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.