What usually comes first is the contract.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Life is one long jubilee.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Love is sweeping the country.

I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?