My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

George Jean Nathan

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

Gijs de Vries

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Eliot Spitzer

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Sydney Carter

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Henry A. Kissinger

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Arthur Scargill

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Benazir Bhutto

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

John Updike