I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Eli Stanley Jones

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

Lee Trevino

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Science is facts.

Henri Poincare

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

William James

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Masaharu Morimoto

Everything yields to diligence

Thomas Jefferson

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

George Burns

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Steve Hackett

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott