Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Sunlight is painting.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.