I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Common sense is not so common.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I'll always be poor in my mind.