When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.