We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic.

There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

I don’t want to be rude, but I’m not that social. When I say, “I never go out,” I mean, “I never go out.”

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Dissent without action is consent.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.