When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

When you love to kill and can do it as well as I can, then what better way to raise hell?" -Javier "Bones" Jones

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.