I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.