At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Action is character.

I don’t have anything to hide.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.