One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.