Thoughts don't become things

Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.