The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

True leadership is caring about the people who don’t care about things you care about.

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

Load every rift with ore.

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.