You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Frankly, I'm tired of the powerful getting away with all kinds of stuff. Hillary [Clinton] didn't win - and, folks, there are ways without an actual prosecution.

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.