Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

When you think positive, good things happen.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B I got into some Good God gospel compilations.