I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

We never thought we could ever get old.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.