Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]