My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.