Most problems are caused by solutions.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.