To be somebody you must last.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

To be somebody you must last.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.

Never give up. And never under any circumstances face the facts.

In our family we dont divorce our men we bury them.

Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.

First be a good animal.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

I like being part of teams that go into things that people don't think are doing very well and getting into them to do better.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

To save all we must risk all.

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

Crowds speak in heroes.

I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.