Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.
When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
We are our own fates. - Our deeds are our own doomsmen. - Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. . . Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.