I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.