I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.

I take three showers a day. I don't need to be in the shower for 15 minutes. I'm a five-minute guy.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.