I recognize no empire of this present age.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I don't read all the newspapers.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.