You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

Your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our #‎ thoughts we can change our lives.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.