The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.

Outcasts always mourn.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.