Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.