As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being.

Susan Sontag, The Double Standar

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

Albert Einstein

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Stephen King

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

Richard Gough

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

John H. Vincent

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Les Brown