Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

Do not forget about the thorns on the roseswhen you say that love is like a red red rose.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown