For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

Life is about finding yourself in the magnificence of life.

The perfection is the journey and the journey is one of learning

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.