Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

The Bible says not to worry so I don't. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the day. If tomorrow shows up then I'll take the same shot tomorrow.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.