“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”

“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”

“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”

“As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.”