People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

The world's biggest tree, the redwood tree was once a little nut that just kept growing regardless of weather.

There are no mistakes in art.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.