All must pay the debt of nature.

The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life

… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.