Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

I expect either total success or total failure. That's my lot in life.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.