It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Be that self which one truly is.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Give up trying to make me give up

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.