Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Jim Carrey

Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.

Thomas Jefferson

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

J.K. Rowling

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.

Maurice Switzer

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

Susan Estrich

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Graham Greene

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

Jack Schwartz

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

John Pierpont Morgan

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Ed Koch

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre