The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.