It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don't know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn't do either.Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.