That if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be-on winning.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Nothing is real.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

In order to complete your cycle, a musician needs to write; document what is going through your mind and where you are harmonically, theoretically, historically.

[On taking a pay cut to make a documentary] I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it’s going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

[To Jimmy Webb] You’re really interested in a career? Wow, I just thought you were some guy who hung out in Las Vegas with Connie Stevens.

My first kiss was when I was 12.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.