... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls.

Begin to live, love, laugh, kiss, smile, hug…!

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.