You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.