The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.
Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.
Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.