To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.