Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

I'm not trying to upset you. I just think it's about time you move

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.