Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

Love should be our walk and our talk.

Al Gore completely lied about climate change in an effort to make a lot of money.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.