True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

I don't know if vocally I am so great.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.