No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be.

But you just said you loved me." "I do, Mer. That's the point. I can't make you like me. I can't stand the thought of you hungry or cold or scared. I can't make you a Six.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!