Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.