“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Talent is only the starting point.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can’t buy, so let’s have another cup o’ coffee and let’s have another piece o’ pie.

How much do I love you? I’ll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.

A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

You’re not sick you’re just in love.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it’s wonderful, so they say.

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

A man may be hot but he’s not when he’s shot cause you can’t get a man with a gun.

I’ve got my love to keep me warm.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

After you get what you want you don’t want it.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Design, whether it’s on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It’s mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns – elements that you wouldn’t often put together in an interesting way.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.