I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.