“What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.”

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it’s the only problem but there’s got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness.