The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

I AM A GIRL WHO DARE, A CITIZEN WHO IS AWARE, DAUGHTER WHO PRAYER, SISTER WHO CARE, A FRIEND WHO SHARE, MIXTURE LIKE AIR, A DIAMOND SO RARE.

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Beggars can't be choosers.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.