Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.