Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.