Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

When wisdom overrides, our heart produces immense ideas with solution

Bear it in mind that when you have no brand, “no brand” is your brand and that’s a negative brand!

Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.

No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying.

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.