To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

OVOXO will always be there.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

A President cannot always be popular.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.