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I had my fortune told once at the Great Wall of China. A withered old lady told my fortune - but it was probably one of these things that are set up to rip off tourists. She told me a couple of vague things that came true, but she was probably just lucky. I would never do it again.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.

In the face of the enormity of the evil in the world, it would be a blasphemy to suspect God of existence.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

To break through any barrier, you must maintain a steadfast believe in God.

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.

We have to get through the summer.' Finn didn't want to get through the summer. He wanted to fall into it, hunker down and stay for a while.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

I often go into the lions' den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.