The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.
You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
I have always idolized eccentric people.
I only wanted to help my people.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.