Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.” Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.
That night’s show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience “didn’t want to see a sketch with two women” can go shit in his hat.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.
Everything I know, I know because of love.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Don’t get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that and just play.
Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity.
The international monetary fund recently [2014] did a study in which it concluded that virtually the entire profit of the big banks comes from the government insurance policy.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
I don’t know what they’re thinking about. Just because someone says, ‘I like what you do’ or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I’ve had that experience with record companies.
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.
The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.
