I no longer believe in love, " she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.

90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.