In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.