If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously its an undo it yourself project.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

The best index to a persons character is how he treats people who cant do him any good and how he treats people who cant fight back.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground put some responsibility on their shoulders.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

If you want your children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter it usually spoils faster.

Its true some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

I love HBO and Showtime, especially Showtime. I'm a huge 'Dexter' fan, and I love 'Weeds.' That would be cool to do a recurring role on a show like that.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Fashion is instant language.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?