Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life.

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

The past marks on your slate only live on in your memory, if you allow them to remain. They can't affect your future if they're no longer there.

Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer’s block.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.