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“The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.”
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“Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.”
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“The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.”
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“I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?”
Source : "Otto Dix, 1891-1969", exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17 - 18; as cited by Roy Forward, in "Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War", p. 9,
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“I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!”
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“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”
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“We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.”
Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014. 
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“It feels so good to tell the truth”
Source : "Foxy Brown 'all about telling the truth' to grand jury investigating felony charge in neighbor fight" by Dave Goldiner, www.nydailynews.com. August 11, 2010.
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“It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.”
Source : Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015
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“Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.”
Source : William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33
