Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.