You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

Despite everything - despite all this hatred, despite all this misunderstanding between nations and civilizations - I think love is the end. Love is the end.

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.