There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Whatever you've accomplished, there's always more to experience.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

I wouldn't want [my daughtr] to be a model. I don't think it's the best industry really for young girls. Unless you're really strong, it can really f**k you up.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.