The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

Where id was, there ego shall be.