When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Jesus loves me, this I know.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

An antique is anything old with class.

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait .

The best thing about the Internet is that it's limited to however you want to do it. You don't gotta talk to everybody, just use it as a outlet.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.