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.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Sunlight is painting.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The day of individual happiness has passed

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression