By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, ….

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

You don't get nothing and like it..

When you start somewhere, you've started..

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not….

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society..

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

The public makes a hit..

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same c….

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save..

The great appear great to us..

What gets celebrated gets replicated..

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from v….

America was built on her citizens..

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop a….

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the….