He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.