Gods always behave like the people who make them.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life.

True wisdomis not borrowed knowledgeit must be basedon my own experience.That which I learn from othersis memory, not wisdom

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.