I'm not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.