The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Cash flow never comes from making people redundant.

Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.