The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.