Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

I was never a topical songwriter.

True affluence is to not need anything.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.