Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.