Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.