People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Success can not be administrated.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.