I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant.

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.