I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Are you depressed?What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.