Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.

It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

I feel like I kind of got my own lane, but I think if you mix T.I., Andre3000, Hov and Kanye you kinda get who I am. And I'm a huge fan of all of those artists, I grew up on a little bit of all them.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.