Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

No Brasil não há outonomas as folhas caem- In Brazil there is no autumnbut the leaves fall

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.