Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.

The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Again, having - fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.