In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Lead and develop true leaders

The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.