No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.