"There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do."

“I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.”

“Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.”

Source : Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

“I am a foodie. I'm not afraid to say it.”

“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”

Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

“Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.”

“Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

“No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.”

“I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down on you and worrying about whether you smell, or worrying about whether your body is weird or what goes across the face of a person who's supposed to be experiencing pleasure but isn't - those are things I'd love to normalize on TV.”