Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.