What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Wine is bottled poetry.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.