The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.

Your gift is not what you do but what you really are

If I wasn't in the band I reckon I'd be a virgin.

I stole a Bible, is that a sin?

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

See you told me I would lose but I won. I might cop a million Jimmy Choos just for fun.

He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.