I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

Energy falls just short of being joy.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'