We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.