“The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.”

“In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.”

“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crme brle...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”

“I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction walland Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.”

“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturns spinning pulsars”

“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”