They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.