Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

I am not now That which I have been.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Once you label me you negate me.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.