The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, andwill still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

People said that I was crazy, but I wasn't.I was just different.

Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.

I feel honesty always works.

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

Evander Holyfield's a great fighter, I watched him when I was a kid, I love the guy, but I had to do what I had to do. It's what I get paid to do.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

It is within you that the divine lives.

The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.