An investment in your country’s education pays the best interest.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.