Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Why does sin feel so good if it is a terrible thing?

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I'm a romantic.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.