Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts