You are in charge of your own happiness

Evil isn't born, Dearie. It's made.

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.