The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

We only live if we dream.

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.