On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I’ve known Daniel since I was 22. We did a play together in London many years ago.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

More time and at least a degree of reasonableness in the treatment of the Labour Party. Because the message that we’re putting out on austerity hasn’t fundamentally changed. There’s been an enormous barrier in getting it across, but now I think a lot of people understand what we’re saying and why we’re saying it.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet, put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes.’

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.