When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?

When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice.

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.