What is done well is done quickly enough.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

I would add a little more love in the world. It's ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.