No, I haven't been single since birth.
If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.
I don't think it's worth two pounds.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
My childhood was extreme.
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
Books do furnish a room.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
We are in the process of issuing this tender during this year.
My first reaction was to immediately feel angry and insulted, we deserve to make livable wages.
On the coming of that tremendous storm which for eight years desolated our country, Mr. Jefferson hesitated not, halted not.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
