There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.