I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Once you label me you negate me.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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

Give up trying to make me give up

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

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

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.