The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

You need your speace to strech your wings.You will learn in the due time to fly higher.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency

Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.