No one chose to be part of a love. You don't choose it. It's not a decision that you make.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my songs are love songs, I tend to talk about love in different ways.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.

Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!

It is time to be old To take in sail.

I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I think, hopefully, she [Hillary Clinton] will be our president.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.