Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Education and Training For Life

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

The great companies get built by their founders

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.