As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.

To know aberrations is to become involved with them.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.