Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Thought is free.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

That which costs little is less valued.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!