Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.