Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Virginia Woolf

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

William Shakespeare

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!

Steve Maraboli

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Bruce Springsteen

This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge.

Blaise Pascal

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Terry Pratchett

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Rick Springfield

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen