The first step toward greatness is to be honest.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Billy Connolly

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Puff Daddy

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War settles nothing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

Mikhail Naimy

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Daryl Hall

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Paulo Coelho

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Thomas A. Edison