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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

It's great, and it's nice to have that feeling when you go home, all the people are supporting you. Of course, there are some people that are talking bad things, but it's normal, and I take them like positives, because not all the people can like me, so it's OK.

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger. What breaks you doesn’t make you bolder. In a matter of fact, nothing becomes stronger or better if it has been broken or shattered; Because a piece of you is always going to be missing, less trusting in any other soul, and those heart and mind of yours will always receive some messages from your past to chain you into the darkness once again. Bad times, knockouts, and disappointments have made no one any stronger, so don’t fool yourself of thinking otherwise …

There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.