In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.