I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me an identity and I gave them my tears, my heart, and my truth.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

An intellectual hate is the worst.