Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
If there's something wrong, speak up!
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
I fought for peace in the fifties.
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.
