But there are three things in this world you can’t shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I'm just a restless soul musically.

People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.