When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

The poor have little beggars none the rich too much enough not one.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.

All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.