Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

E. Duane Hulse

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Johann von Goethe

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Michael Bloomberg

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Carl Schurz

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Thomas Nashe

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Ray Bradbury

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

Tom Flores

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Claude Chabrol