There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

When we confuse the needs with the desires

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.