When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

I was married by 18 and I had a beautiful little girl.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

I'm pretty outdoorsy!

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn't very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It's both tasty and healthy.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.