Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

One day middle school will end and become highschool and after that it just becomes life. All those things you think are important now won't be anymore.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of democrats coming to the republican point of view.

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

I just sit down and write the best song for the best moment, and however it comes out, it is what it is.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

Come apart from the clever argumentation of contending theology and, for a brief while, look inward, that one look shall drive the nail into the coffin of birth and forever end its cycle recurring.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.