It takes very little to govern good people.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.