We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

God gave you purpose, the devil can’t stop it, so the person in the mirror must choose success or failure. Choose success!

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.