Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.

If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs.

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.