We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction