When I'm singing at the piano and I'm having a really nice fun day singing, if I have a headache, the headache will immediately dissipate just the notes going through my head.

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.