Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.