When the officer approached the window, he said ‘Papers’ and before he could finish, I shouted, ‘Scissors! I win, ’ and drove off.

So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.

When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge