Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I feel Anglo-American.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Men must know their limitations.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Honesty is the best policy.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.