So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.