I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

There’s no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,

Walking the streets of New York, a lot of people are cheering me on. It feels good.

No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'