Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Wisdom always ends up in gain

Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.