The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

2 + 2 equal 4... so far I don't think it will change to 5 or 6, it's near to fact, but the probability of the ability... equals not a fact!

I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.