An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.

I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.