Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

When the world is too much, create your own. I do it every day.

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.