Before I speak, I have something important to say.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.