I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

My world is falling apart.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.