"Some one has said that we are..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.”

“There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”

“Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.”

“Every journey starts with a single step.”

“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.”

“Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.”

“You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.”

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

“Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.”