It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

Travel steadily in your define path.

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.