The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't, it just makes them dead.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.