"You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself."

"The true measure of a man is the greatest battles are fought within."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"It is a steadfast truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."

"When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas."

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."