Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.