Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.

I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Being broke is not a disgrace it is only a catastrophe.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.