Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I was a guitar player first off.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.