Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism.

Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.