A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.