Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life’s earnest goals

But names no longer meant anything. On Lunamere, everyone became a number in the end.Deep in the belly of hell incarnate Valen became 377.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.

If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.