A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.