My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.