The world isn't fair, Calvin.""I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Dreams, unlike eggs, don’t hatch from sitting on them.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

Even Bill Clinton admitted Obamacare is the craziest thing in the world, where people wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow