There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Life is fleeting we must master it in the present.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

I'm trying to get out of my own way

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.