though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I'm on a different plane like Hervé Villechaize

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

I've got the attention span of a child.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.