The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

I want to look at you as you kill me.

Knowledge is not always power.

Love the dream to live the dream.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.