The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.