If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.