The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.

Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.