Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. – Paul Simon
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, youve created a special little thing, and thats what Im looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. – Paul Simon
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. – Paul Simon
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich