I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

Part of courage is simple consistency.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.

Being protective is important.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

I don't control anything I create.