Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

You live eighty years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

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