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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.

I saw you, and i wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.

To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one’s becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

I go through my comments sometimes, and I’ll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

To lose one’s health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness