We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.

Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.