"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."

“If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.”

Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.170, CUA Press

“Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

“I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.”

“What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.”

“Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1938). “The Conquest of Civilization”

“You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.”

“I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.”