The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach.

Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.