The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.