No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.

Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.