Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.