Darkness exists to make light truly count.

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.

Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

I'll never forget where I came from, and that my home is forever Sweet Home Alabama!