People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.

Look up and down and round about you.!

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.