The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

If I should ever die$$$ God forbid$$$ let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

There is only one party in the United States$$$ the Property Party and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

I've always said$$$ I have nothing to say$$$ only to add. And it's with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.