Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous

It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them, I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now.

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.