"Shoot if you must this old gray head But spare your country's flag " she said.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Well, I may get drunk, " the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.