I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.

In the NBA, it's about patience.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.