Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!