Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.
I don't write songs, songs write me.
I don't write songs, songs write me. . . . Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. . . . The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Love is lovelier The second time around.
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
All neurotics seek the religious
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.