Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

A poet must sing for his own people.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.