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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Every man's memory is his private literature.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.