I don’t do quagmires.
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
Whoever is the first to cry ‘Stop the thief’ is the one who is guilty.
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.
At this time when I turn 50, because so there’s many of my friends and family who didn’t get to see 50-years-old, and so, I’m celebrating for them too.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
The way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that’s only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
Nuclear weapons are not a defence.
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
I wanted to do the music, but not at the expense of being happy.
