If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I am not now That which I have been.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.