Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I am so girly. I love dresses.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

The customer is always right.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.