To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes started at the time that I said they would.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.