Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

I hope that death contains less than this.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

Good shoes take you to good places

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Just having a great product won't take you anywhere.

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.