The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

If something is built to show, it's build to grow.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.