Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.

Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.