It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.

A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.

Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it.

Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.

You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.

Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.

Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I was always laughing in church.