It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don't know who you'll see in your dreams.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.