The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
The faculty of continual transformation. . . is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind
. . . go in the direction your head is pointed in.
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.