Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.

If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.

I have really good instincts about friends.

Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance.

Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.