Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.

I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.

I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with Russia.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?