Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

‎What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.