Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.

It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.