Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

Treason is a matter of dates.

I complete what I start.

The ends do not justify the means

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the