We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Love and let flowers of peace bloom.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.