It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.