You have to die a few times before you can really live.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.