I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

Remember now, Cheers, no tears.