"Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity."

“Be careful what you choose: You may get it.”

“I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.”

“I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.”

“She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.”

“A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

“I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2008.

“Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2006). “Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 22, 2015