Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

We are the market, we know what we want.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.