Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.