Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Courage is grace under pressure.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

A place for everything, and everything in its place.