I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Music is like film to me.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Mine is better than ours.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?