I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

John McLaughlin

He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.

Sir Henry Wotton

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

John Bunyan

A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.

Ramsey Clark

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

As you grow older, you change.

Martin Scorsese

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilated by capture or death. The secret of success even in the more pacific engagements of life lies in this principle

H. E. E. Hayes

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Albert Ellis

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Erica Jong

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen