"I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul..."

"You can never be wise and be in love at the same time."

"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."

"You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong"

"Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane..."

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."

"If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure"

"Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain"

"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."

"I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people"

"You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more"

"I've forgotten more than you'll ever know"

"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"

"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast"

"How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."

"To live outside the law you must be honest."

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act."

"Chaos is a friend of mine."

"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."

"Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else. [on JFK's electoral victory]"

"Of audiences: they were really tough - they used to tie their tomatoes on the end of a yo-yo, so they could hit you twice"

"The program is nearly over! I can feel the audience is still with me but if I run faster I can shake them off"

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness."~"

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

"He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150."

"I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money."

"It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defense Program to prepare our boys for anything"

"When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke"

"It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down."

"I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages"

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."

"People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book."

"The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode"

"The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode"

"I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

"It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got."

"I have to much money invested in sweaters."

"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?"

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast."

"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."