The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.

Think a thousand times when you get a bad though, but not once when you get a good one.

You must act as if it's impossible to fail.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

It's harder to be kind than clever

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.