The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

A good leader makes a good follower.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind, ' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.