I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

You should make great things, not promising great things.

I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.