A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

No Soul is identical – yet all Souls are unified.

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned

The future looks a bit bleak to me.