I am, " I saidTo no one thereAn no one heard at allNot even the chair"I am, " I cried"I am, " said IAnd I am lost, and I can't even say whyLeavin' me lonely still

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

Character is BUILT by repeatedly choosing the best over the easiest.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.