I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.

Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Research can trap you into the past.