The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

The true principle to promotion and advancement is generosity.The giving of oneself… your time, talent and substance. Today, I choose to be a giver.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70 In just those short years, numbering ten

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.