The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.