If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.