You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

How did my world get so small?

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.