Borrowed illusions are better than none.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Be careful with how you present yourself in the public, because most people will not hesitate to treat you in that exact manner.

Revolution?” Arno laughed. “What happened wasn’t a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

People are irrational - and predictably so.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.