I am a farmer singing at the plow

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved