The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Saint Basil

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

Ace Frehley

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Jason Lee

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Hubert Humphrey

Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Douglas Noel Adams

The world is a living image of God.

Tommaso Campanella

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

Guy Clark

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

H. L. Mencken

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller