The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

If you should escape the censure of others hope not to escape your own.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking, King of my jungle, just a gangster stalking.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

The essence of all beautiful art all great art is gratitude.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.