I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Effective action is always unjust.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.