Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

When leaders lack expertise, nothing else works

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.