An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.