"I'm a human being. I've got opinions,..." - Quote by Kanye West

“Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?”

“I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.”

“Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?”

“Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.”

“Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.”

“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.”

“You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.”

“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”

“They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.”