We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

As you are now so once were we.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

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