Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities