Everyone always says more than they're supposed to..

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our s….

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am.

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes..

Love more and openly..

The less inhibited you are the better..

The blues is life itself..

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius..

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist..

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harve….

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table..

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable..

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is ….