The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

To be a success, be yourself.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them