Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

You have to let go of what is holding you back.

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.