The law is above the law, you know.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'.

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.