To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Money can’t buy life.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

Our nation must come together to unite.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Political courage is not political suicide.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.