I've lost the one girl I found.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

New Jersey gives us glue.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Learning through doing.

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride

If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...

When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.