Every dogma must have its day.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

In order for someone to follow you, you must be true to heart and purpose. This is true in any relationship. Someone may follow you for awhile without it, but not a lifetime.

Don't sit on the fence

The time is always right to do what is right.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.