With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.