A good liar must have a good memory.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.