The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The good old days are now.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. . . Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. . . Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.