No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.