If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

The early firings contained many stones.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science