At 8, I made a pact with God.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.

There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance.

My routine actually stays pretty simple and consistent. Every morning I use the X-Out Wash-In Treatment with warm water in the shower. I towel dry my face, apply a moisturizer-sunscreen, and go!

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.