I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.

When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.