The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.