And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly

My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.