You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.