Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.