I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I'm the guy who'll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible. There could be a miracle waiting for you this minute. Please make room for it in your thinking.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.