After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you're onstage, you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's OK.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
They who drink beer will think beer.
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.
