Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.