"You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness."

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”

“This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.”

“Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.”

“Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.”

“I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.”

Source : "Uncharted 3 interview – Nolan North on chasing pictures". Interview with David Jenkins, metro.co.uk. November 1, 2011.

“The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.”

“If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last . . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

“All I want to do is change the world.”