A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Where is the good in goodbye?

There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

We broke the world to make it whole.

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.