America - the best poor man's country in the world.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

The only difference between you and a dream is I haven’t woken up with you

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

I always bow to my enemies before I destroy them!

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

Focus your intention on your dreams, you can wave magic when you set your heart and mind to it

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.