Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.