The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.