What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car...

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

Think, just blink and I made...a million rhymes. Just imagine if you blinked...a million times. Damn, I'd be paid...I got it made.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.