Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

What other hope does life hold outBut the miraculous, the skilled and patientExecution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.