God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.