Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.