O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

Life is more valuable than money.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

The future of rock belongs to women.

I didn't not perform.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.